Fading August

Saw you in a story on somebody's phone

Same laugh, but the edges came off

Somebody taught you how to take a compliment

And I know for a fact that it wasn't me

Do you still hear me in the low end?

Or did the room go quiet when I left?

I'm askin' the dark and the dark don't answer Tell me —

does it sound better yet?

You come in loud,

you come in clear

Better without me, better without me

Turns out the static was me all these years Better without me,

better without me

(Oh-oh) without me (Oh-oh)

without me

Everybody's playin' your record too loud Every bar in the city knows

the words I taught you nothin' but how to leave a

room

And you turned it into somethin' that works

Do you still hear me in the low end?

Or did the room go quiet when I left?

I'm askin' the dark and the dark don't answer Tell me —

does it sound better yet?

You come in loud,

you come in clear

Better without me, better without me

Turns out the static was me all these years Better without me,

better without me

Clear — clear — clear

— clear — With— with— with— Without me

Without me

(Oh-oh) without me

(Oh-oh) without me

I'm not askin' you to turn it down

I'm not askin' you to come back through

I just needed one time to say it out loud It got

clear, it got clear when I —

You come in loud,

you come in clear Better without me,

better without me Turns out the static was me all these years

Better.

Without me.

(Without me) (Without) (With—)